The popular crackers from Nabisco drew their fair share of criticism as the design of the box shows the animals as circus creatures. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) pushed ...

Someone needs to tell Peta that Animal Crackers aren't real animals. — Stephen Englisch (@tevenski) August 21, 2018 Does #Nabisco still want us to eat the animals inside the box?

PETA first reached out to Mondelez in April 2016 to express concerns about the animal crackers box and its representation of a circus life where animals were often mistreated and forced to perform ...

Louella38 / Dreamstime Nabisco's animal crackers will be freed from their imaginary confinement. The company's newly redesigned boxes will no longer depict animals in circus cages.

(CBS) – Animal crackers are being released from their cages after 116 years, and shoppers may not recognize the packaging of Nabisco's classic treat Barnum's Animals crackers in the grocery store.

Mondelez agreed and started working on a redesign. In the meantime, the crackers' namesake circus - Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey - folded for good. The 146-year-old circus, which had ...

August 20, 2018 photo shows box of Nabisco Barnum’s Animals crackers on shelf of grocery store in Des Moines, Iowa, with newly designed packaging Charlie Neibergall / AP After more than a ...